rce,t]iar in tlie pUct where the Worm had infinuated itf<:lf, 
the Ar)irx:ia}culum was partly wiihout any Nfeat, or Mo- 
tion, whereas there ftill remained feme Motion above and 
below thar place : Upon the fitrh day after, I (aw another 
Worm trying to get into the Body of the Animalculum, 
upon which it made a great Wr u'ith its Body, and fo 
fhook off its Enemy s and prefently after 1 faw no Motion 
in the Guts, lb. that I concluded that the Death of the 
Animalculum was approaching ^ after which it did aban- 
don the Root of the Duck-weed, and p]?ced itfelf on the 
fide of the Glafs, and a little while after I faw it lye dead 
at the bottom 5 from whence I firmly concluded, that 
the Death of the Animalculum was occafion'd by the 
Worm s piercing into its Body, whereupon the Guts were 
fo wounded that they were deprived off all Motion. 
Among feveral forts of fmalL Animalcula, I obferv'd 
Three whofe Bodies were about as thick as the Hair of 
ones Head, and Ten times as long. 
Thefe Animalcula were fo TranTparent, that at fifft I 
took 'em for nothing but emprj- Skins j for'one could fee 
nothing but an exceeding fmallpart of it about the Head, 
and the hinder part of the Body that was not Tranfpa- 
rent 3 and that part which I judged to be the Bowels, 
was a fmall part of it inclining to a yellowifh colour , 
and they hari^^n th^fore part of the Head two ( as it 
were) very cr^obked Claws, and on the hinder part of the 
Body feveral Tranfparent Hairs. 
I obferv'd thefe Animalcula feveral days together, and 
always faw that they moved their Bodies very nimbly in 
a Serpentine motion^ and as it were in an inftant of 
tifqe, and fo removed about from place to place 5 and as 
often as I view'd thera, I could never find that they fat 
ftill on the Roots of the Duck- weed, or on the fides of 
the Glafs, but were continually roving about in the 
Water. 
Af. 
